Dick Cheney on Families & Children

For families: improve schools; reform taxes; restore honesty

When Lynne and I were growing up, we had so many blessings. We went to good public schools, where we had fine, dedicated teachers. Our mothers, like our fathers, worked outside the home so that we could go to college. We
lived in a caring community, where parents were confident that their children’s lives could be even better than their own.

And that is as it should be, and as it can be again.

We can make our public schools better.

We can reform the tax code, so that families can keep more of what they earn ... more dollars that they can spend on what they value, rather than on what the government thinks is important.

We can restore the ideals of honesty and honor that must be a part of our national life, if our children are to thrive.

Source: Speech accepting nomination for Vice Presidency
Aug 2, 2000

Voted against WIC welfare nuttrition programs

He voted against the creation of the Department of Education and opposed funding for the Head Start program. He was one of only 16 House members who
voted in 1983 against a nonbinding measure to protect a nutrition program for women, infants, and children from budget cuts.